What's Been Going On? - Letterland

We have been learning so many more different  ways of making the same sound. Over the past wee while we have been looking at the long-u sound. Here is what we have found out.

The cool thing is that we have been remembering to use all these when we have been doing our writing.

What's Been Going On? - I Am a Traveller

We have been learning how to speak French as part of our I Am a Traveller topic. Every morning Mr D greets us with "Bonjour tous la monde." We all reply "Bonjour Monsieur D." The he asks us "Comment ça va?" The we reply "Comment ça va merci!" We practised introducing our selves to our learning buddies in French. Mr D was really impressed.

We did some more work on our questions about what we want to find out about France. We think these questions are heaps better now.

What's Been Going on in BD Class?

Okay everyone...there has been a whole heap happening over the past three weeks. Mr D apologises that there haven't been any posts over the past two weeks. So...watch out now. Here is everything we have been doing in BD Class.

07/05/12 What's Going on in BD Class?

What a beautiful start to the week. The weather was beautiful and everyone arrived at school with a happy smile on their face. We welcomed back Joseph who has been away in Thailand and Cambodia. He shared about some of his adventures.

In maths today we beat our "Around the World" record by 59 seconds. We are getting better at counting on from the biggest number.

We did some editing of Mr D's weekend writing today. We tried to find better words to use. It really made his writing much more interesting.

For our "I Am a Traveller" topic, we are learning to ask good questions. We talked about open and close, fat and skinny questions. Here are our first attempts at coming up with questions. We did this with our learning buddies.

We think we might need to do a bit of work on these!

We have another "50 Nights Reading person, but we also have two "75 Nights Reading" people now. Well done to Kaleb and Piper!

30/04/12-04/05/12 What's Been Going on in BD Class?

Wow! It has been such a busy week in BD Class. We have been doing amazing character writing, we have travelled around the world, we have finished some amazing artwork, been learning new strategies for maths...we have been working our socks off!

This week we celebrated two groups of people. Firstly there was the group of children who have achieved 50 nights reading... and another group who have achieved 25 nights reading.

Watch out next week to find out who has achieved 75 nights reading!

On Tuesday we travelled around the world. We visited a whole lot of different countries. We went to France, Egypt, South Africa, Holland, Brazil and China. We learned a whole lot of facts about each of these countries. Mr D took us to France. We learned about Paris, some French food and we made baguettes. It was funny because we couldn't understand Monsieur D because he was speaking French. Then he remembered to speak English again.

We all got a passport that we took around with us. It got stamped every time we visited a new country.

We flew from New Zealand to France...and found out how far away France is from New Zealand.

We have been working on planning our writing and using descriptive language in our character descriptions.